Rolf Hans Wilhelm Karl Carls was a high-ranking German admiral during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany.
Kapitänleutnant Carls (right) at a naval artillery observation post in the Dardanelles, 1915
Carls with Polish general Tadeusz Kutrzeba oboard the heavy cruiser Deutschland, Kiel, 1935
Carls and Rear Admiral Theodor Burchardi visiting a port on the Eastern Front, May 1942
Tadeusz Kutrzeba was a general of the army during the Second Polish Republic. He served as a major general in the Polish Army in overall command of Army Poznań during the 1939 German Invasion of Poland.
Gen. Kutrzeba arriving to negotiate the surrender of Polish capital with General Johannes Blaskowitz, the Commander of German 8th Army, 1939
General Kutrzeba shortly before signing the capitulation of Warsaw in 1939